Category: Christian
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Faith, Religiousness, and Spirituality: What’s the Difference?
Matters of faith and psychology are both part of people’s everyday, and often seen at odds with one another. Given that psychology at its root literally means “the study of the soul” this is unsurprising, but to any researcher at the intersection of these two fields, there is an understanding that they have much in…
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I Knew Better!
Reading: Proverbs 8:4-12 Extended Reading: Proverbs 8 Across the past years I have both taught about and carried out counseling for people stuck at some point or other, and often within that context, I have treated people struggling with addiction. These addictions have been in multiple forms – substance use, alcohol, gambling, gaming, pornography, food…
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Learning the Hard Way
The year was 1992. Seinfeld was already popular and two new shows were premiering on TV that year in Mad About You and Melrose Place. In the world of Christian Music, a newer band called dcTalk released their brand new album Free At Last, and what would eventually become a more popular song on this…
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Being Broke
Up to this point in Proverbs, Solomon has guided us toward wisdom and away from adultery. Wisdom, he tells us, is more precious than the most precious items of any time and nothing is more desirable (3:14-15). Adultery is a fools errand that leads to death and destruction (chapters 5, 6, and 7). But here…
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Sharp as a Two-Edged Sword
Adultery. It’s everywhere. Think, when was the most recent time you ran across this topic? Within the past month? Week? 24 Hours? For me, it was sitting with my wife watching The Crown on Netflix, but really it’s just everywhere. Most recent popular television shows are wrought with it. A Million Little Things, Breaking Bad,…
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Father Knows Best
Starting on radio in 1949 and transitioning to television in 1954, Robert Young brought Jim Anderson to life for 6 seasons in the classic series Father Knows Best. During that timeframe, a new show started in 1957 starring Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver. As Father Knows Best was ending, at least two…
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Don’t Do It!
How many times when you were a kid did you hear phrases like Stop! Be careful! Don’t do that! or something similar? How many times have you uttered one of those phrases to your own child? Generally, when one of these phrases comes out of the mouth of a parent, the goal of protecting a child from…
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